Subject: [lojban] Re: samcu

From: Robert LeChevalier <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 14:22:53 -0400

At 10:08 AM 4/7/03 -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
>The official definition of {samcu} is any of three different plants:
>Taro (Colocasia) is in the arum family.
>Manioc (Manihot) is in the spurge family (as is the poinsettia).
>Yam (Dioscorea) is in the yam family.
>Which of these, if any, is the default meaning of {samcu}?

Probably any/all of them. In a context where you are talking about pretty 
flowers, it might be the poinsettia; if you are going to eat it, it might 
be a yam.

Good place for some disambiguating lujvo. gismu are supposed to have as 
generalized a meaning as possible, so as to enable such use in lujvo.

lojbab

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